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PVR and DVD Burning with an All In Wonder
Recently my geForce4 went bad and much to my chagrin, I found out that the
"lifetime warranty" on it is only valid with the original reciept, which I cannot find. Looks like it's time to buy a new video card. I do play my fair share of games, but am no means obsessed with maxing out my frame rates. Besides from what I've read, the radeo 9700 and 9800 chipsets are just as good if not better than the geForce4 anyhow. The PVR capabilities on the All In Wonder versions of these cards interests me a lot though. What I would like to do is to record TV shows and be able to burn them to DVD. I would also like to use this card to convert a bunch of stuff I have on VHS (taped sporting events mostly) to DVD as well. If anyone has done this with either the 9700, 9700 Pro, 9800, or 9800 Pro versions of the All In Wonder, I would appreciate your input. Thanks! |
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The PVR capabilities on the All In Wonder versions of these cards interests
me a lot though. What I would like to do is to record TV shows and be able to burn them to DVD. I would also like to use this card to convert a bunch of stuff I have on VHS (taped sporting events mostly) to DVD as well. Yea, it interested me too. Unfortunately the advertised features never actually all work at the same time (it is like wack-a-mole, each release of drivers of MMC breaks as much or more as it fixes), and the recorded image quality is pretty marginal. I finally gave up on my AIW Radeon ever performing as originally advertised and now own a stand-alone box - the Panasonic DMR-E80H which can record to its hard disk, or DVD-RAM, or DVD-R and it has vastly superior recording quality (of course, it is also more expensive than an AIW card, but unlike the AIW it performs up to advertised specs). The graphics part of the Radeon has always worked pretty well for me, but the tuner/capture part has always been disappointing. I just bought a new Radeon for a computer upgrade, but not an AIW version, one of those was enough :-). -- == The *Best* political site URL:http://www.vote-smart.org/ ==+ email: icbm: Delray Beach, FL | URL:http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley Free Software and Politics ==+ |
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"netwolf68" wrote in message ... Recently my geForce4 went bad and much to my chagrin, I found out that the "lifetime warranty" on it is only valid with the original reciept, which I cannot find. Looks like it's time to buy a new video card. I do play my fair share of games, but am no means obsessed with maxing out my frame rates. Besides from what I've read, the radeo 9700 and 9800 chipsets are just as good if not better than the geForce4 anyhow. The PVR capabilities on the All In Wonder versions of these cards interests me a lot though. What I would like to do is to record TV shows and be able to burn them to DVD. I would also like to use this card to convert a bunch of stuff I have on VHS (taped sporting events mostly) to DVD as well. If anyone has done this with either the 9700, 9700 Pro, 9800, or 9800 Pro versions of the All In Wonder, I would appreciate your input. Thanks! I have an AIW 9000 Pro which I got for watching & recording TV. The recorded video is just fair. I like it's TV features. In another machine, I have a Navis Pro .It has an onboard tuner. It records and captures the best video I've seen. Far superior to any other card in its price range and many above its price range. The software is a little quirky, but the video this card produces is so good, I overlook its quirks. It's not a video card, so you'd have to buy one separately. http://www.bernclare.com/navispro.htm You can email or call this company and they will discuss the card with you. They were forthcoming about the cards negatives. You should definitely check this card out. |
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"Paul Murphy" wrote in message ... "James Hill" wrote in message news:njX1b.12541$xf.8812@lakeread06... [snipped] Pity they only make an NTSC version, looks like every country other than America, Canada or Japan is out of luck (maybe 1 or 2 others as well but there are far more countries using PAL or SECAM). Paul Yeah, I forgot about that. Here is a link to another Navis card. I can't vouch for this one, though. It doesn't have a tuner, but will record from a separate tuner and supports time-shifting. It only supports up to 8mbits. http://www.pentamedia.com/english/products/navis.htm |
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Right now, I also have 512MB RAM, but only have an Athlon XP 2000+ (1.67
GHz). Do you think that's close enough? "fasdfa" wrote in message ... "netwolf68" wrote in : Recently my geForce4 went bad and much to my chagrin, I found out that the "lifetime warranty" on it is only valid with the original reciept, which I cannot find. Looks like it's time to buy a new video card. I do play my fair share of games, but am no means obsessed with maxing out my frame rates. Besides from what I've read, the radeo 9700 and 9800 chipsets are just as good if not better than the geForce4 anyhow. The PVR capabilities on the All In Wonder versions of these cards interests me a lot though. What I would like to do is to record TV shows and be able to burn them to DVD. I would also like to use this card to convert a bunch of stuff I have on VHS (taped sporting events mostly) to DVD as well. If anyone has done this with either the 9700, 9700 Pro, 9800, or 9800 Pro versions of the All In Wonder, I would appreciate your input. Thanks! I have the AIW 9700 Pro. I use it extensively to convert VHS to DVD and to capture DVD quality video. I'm running a P4 2.4ghz with 512megs RAM. Your computer must be fast to get the highest quality video capture. |
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